Everything Thieves Guilds Do

[Wraith Form]

Fixed that for you.

Ahh, thanks. I ride the little bus.

 

[Wraith Form]

I was thinking of banks, or the historical banks of the Italian city-states. Something every ambitious thieves guild could aspire to...one day....

Are you bashing the Vatican again?!?

[/religion]

If I keep this up, I'll hit on every taboo topic we're not supposed to post about...! I win EN World!

 

[Wraith Form]

Buildings were burned, and up to 60,000 beggars and destitute were finally sent to the galleys (after having been marked with red-hot iron on the skin).

So it was fun for the whole family, you're saying?

 

[I'm Cleo]

Governing!

The City of Greyhawk.

I'm Cleo!

 

[Nifft]

Are you bashing the Vatican again?!?

Now, now. No-one said the Guild molested teenage spotted owls or anything like that.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Tonguez]

This is actually not too much different from the way Thief-takers operated with official license in the Edwardian/Victorian era.

lol thats pretty much how I run 'Thieves Guilds' imc

most cities will have a small set of Fences (often runing Pawn shops) who are generally licenced and pay a portion of their profits to the city ruler(s)
These Fences will have a network of suppliers (ie organised gangs) who might include smugglers, burglars, Night pot collectors, pimps, stoolies, alchemist and mage guilds, and of course adventurers as well as his own enforcers.

The enforcers keep the gangs in check, the gangs hold their own turf and keep pressure on the streetrats (cut purses and pickpockets) and so everything balances in the end.

Its not an organised Guild but it does have a structure...

 

[Bert the Ogre]

Read "Wiseguy" or watch "Goodfellas." The modern American Thieves' Guild. The Mafia has always been about theft, it's their primary source of cash (according to Henry Hill).

I'd recommend reading the book over seeing the movie. MUCH more details, especially on the JFK robbery. $17M was stolen from Lufthansa Airlines, which was the airline used to bring U.S. cash back from the money exchanges in Europe. See also the Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_heist

I kind of like that one, it could be rewritten into a "Thieves' Guild" adventure, with some modifications.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Are you bashing the Vatican again?!?

[/religion]

Not me. I was thinking of the Medici Bank, among others in 15th century Italy.

If I keep this up, I'll hit on every taboo topic we're not supposed to post about...! I win EN World!

Then you'll become a mod and get to discourage others from doing the same!


Thanks, Ourph, for the historical and interesting info. I've got some of that concept going into my campaign already, but now it will have more details/facts.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Well, if you didn't parade around wearing a crown and calling yourself a prince, they might not have overcharged you...so much.

I got them in the end. By convincing them I was a prince, I got a line of credit. Ha!

 

[Nightfall]

Psst, hey kid... *takes a leg with a boot on it from under his jacket* The first one's free!

Uhm not quite but I guess that could work.

*and even a good thieves guild can work better by having a good rep*

Thayan Redman,

It's not that easy. I pimp out Scarred Lands all the time. You should see the people that flee in droves some times.